The wedding cake I made last week collapsed on the way to the venue . fortunately i was delivering friday evening for a saturday wedding.

Had to drive home again (1/2 hour and re do the icing - the cake was ok - 4 hours - then deliver at 8.00 am saturday morning).

I hardly slept all Friday night - it has taken till now before i was able to write it here.

I have not heard anything from the bride, so I assume the cake was ok.

I guess your cake bounceyed of the board!
Sorry I couldn't resist. It happened to me a couple
of weeks ago with a bar mitz cake. On delivery,
the cake went splatttt! Had all the tools and did
a repair on site. Thank god I'm always hours
early so in case it happens. AND IT DID!
sorry again.
v

Ooohhhh....I feel your pain. How awful for you. What caused it to collapse? Did you have plenty of dowels?

I am so sorry to hear about your cake falling!!

Can you describe what went wrong so someone can help with how it could have been prevented?

I think many of us worry about this happening.

Again, I am so sorry, but it sounds like you pulled it out like a pro.

It was covered in sugarpaste, I had pieced it - a circle on the top and a piece around the edge to get a straight edge, rather than just one whole piece over the top. IYSWIM Unfortunately this wasn't strong enough to hold it. So I had to remake with in the normal way , it had a more rounded edge but at least it was standing! Never again

The cake before it collapsed is the pink and white one with peonies in my photos. I didn't take a picture of the repair job - i was too p*&&^d off.

ps yes there were plenty of dowels and the top 2 tiers were ok thankfully